... kindness many have felt, his advice many have listened to with profit, his amiability many have admired. In politics was a Whig ; but his influence, whether in parliament or in the secret meetings of his party, has rather been felt than seen since the ...

... Gienguoich. Mr. Ellice was one of the most respected members of the old Whig party. He first entered Parliament 1813. In April, 1833, he w as made Secretary of War. When the Whigs went out Mr. Ellice, of course, went with them ; and from 1834 the time ...

... are desirable, the country will rather rest contented with things as they are than entrust the work to Lord Russell and the Whigs. Whether or not the veteran Statesman felt the sting of his own remark we cannot tell; but assuredly the sentence which he ...

... Solicitor-General on the return of Lord Palmerston office in July, 1859. Inevitably Sir Henry Keating, by the good pleasure of the Whigs, was afterwards made puisne judge in the Court Common Pleas. Then came another conflict, and Sir Francis Goldsmid was returned ...

... the stepfather of bis wife. So the dignity falls to a good Whig, whose family has made Reading Whig borough, and who has always voted, as hi» brother before him voted, steadily for the Whigs. But still the truth must spoken. The appoiutment of Sergeaut ...

... certainly is not a Radical, for he is the great oppneer of Bright and Cobden in the house and in the country; he is not a Whig for the great Whigs have not acknowledged him; and although he calls himself a Liberal,” he exhibits that strong cross of Toryism which ...

... Bright’s speech was devoted to the question of parliamentary reform. advocated the reform of a Government wielded turns by Whig and Tory aristocrats, half whom owed their origin to the slime and corruption of the glorious revolution, us it was called ...

... notable fact, too, that their sky was ever of unbroken live (laughter). On the contrary, the Assyrians were the out-and-out Whigs of old days, because they went the principle of making themselves happy pulling every body else to pieces. And it is notable ...

... a large majority of whom intend standing aloof in the forthcoming contest, if contest there should be. Some of the leading W’hig families intend supporting Mr. Harvey, the Conservative candidate, in the event of Dr. Lee persisting in going to the poll ...

... Sir Cbesswell Cbesswell; Sir Geoboe Cornwall Lewis, and the aged Mr. Edward Ellice, two of the most respectable of the old Whigs; and only now, the great humorist, Thackeray, has been called to his account, Among celt-hres the Court Martial on Colonel ...

... fifteen votes. In point of fact, there is strong reason to believe that when the day of account arrives, as soon it wiU, the Whigs will be driven out by majority even larger than this. The following table has been drawn up from year to year, and may I think ...

... absence of those electors who, although generally styled Liberals, were devoted to the private interests of certain influential Whig families of Buckinghamshire rather than to the general interests. Where, he asked, were the Liberals in that county ? (laughter) ...